# ixé
## French
### Participle

ixé (feminine ixée, masculine plural ixés, feminine plural ixées)
* past participle of ixer

## Nheengatu
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi ixé, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [iˈʃɛ]
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* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: i‧xé

### Pronoun

ixé
* (first-class) first-person singular personal pronoun (I, me)
    Ixé mira. Ixé asasá puranga.I am a person. I do well.
    Aé uputari uyuká ixé.He wants to kill me.
    Aé umeẽ manungara ixé arama.He gives something to me.

#### Usage notes

* As a first-class pronoun, ixé is used as the subject (with the exception of second-class verbs, which are sometimes referred to as adjectives) and as the object of a sentence. The personal pronoun ixé is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.

### See also

Nheengatu personal pronouns :
| singular | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | ixé | se |
| second-person | indé | ne |
| third-person | aé | i |
| plural | first-class pronoun | second-class pronoun |
| first-person | yandé | yané |
| second-person | penhẽ | pe |
| third-person | aintá (or tá) | aintá (or tá) |

### References

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎ (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN, pages 11, 104
* Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “ixé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎ (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 353–354

## Old Tupi
### Alternative forms

* iche (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe (“I, me”).
* Amondawa ihe
* Kamayurá ije
* Manus Koro jihi
* Tapirapé ie
* Tembé ihe
* Tenharim ihi
* Wayampi ie
* Xingú Asuriní idže

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iˈʃɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Hyphenation: i‧xé

### Pronoun

ixé (1st class, 1st person singular, dative ixébe / ixébo, 2nd class equivalent xe)
* I, me
    Ixé oroîuká.I kill you.
* (uncommon) my, mine

#### Derived terms

* ixé re'a
* ixé re'ĩ
* ixébe
* ixébo

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: ixé (“I, me”)

### See also

| Person | Number | Nominative／Accusative | Nominative／Accusative | Nominative／Accusative | Possessive | Possessive | Dative | Dative | Objective |
| Person | Number | Subject | 1st class | 2nd class | Nonreflexive | Reflexive | 1st class | 2nd class | Objective |
| Singular | 1st | | ixé | xe | xe | xe | ixébe／ixébo | xebe／xebo |
| Singular | 2nd | îepé | endé | nde | nde | nde | endébe／endébo | ndebe／ndebo | oro- |
| Singular and Plural | 3rd | | a'e | i | i | o | i xupé | i xupé |
| Plural | 1st exc | | oré | oré | oré | oré | orébe／orébo | orébe／orébo |
| Plural | 1st inc | | îandé | îandé | îandé | îandé | îandébe／îandébo | îandébe／îandébo |
| Plural | 2nd | peîepé | peẽ | pe | pe | pe | peẽme／peẽmo | peẽme／peẽmo | opo- |
| Plural | Indefinite | | asé | asé | asé | asé | asébe／asébo | asébe／asébo |

### References

* ↑ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 200, line 3
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ixé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 202, column 2
* http://tupi.fflch.usp.br/